Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed andCONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Oct 17 2010 - 21:42:28 EST


On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Alex Elsayed wrote:

> I have a kernel that was compiled with LZMA compression (CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA). I
> wish to extract the .config from it without running it, but the script to do so
> does not support such kernels. How could I go about fixing this, so that the
> script supports other compression modes than just gzip?

Please test the patch from Dick Streefland at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19852
and report how it works for you.

thanks,
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~Randy
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